Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

Two astronomy facts about July may go against your impressions. First, the days are getting shorter, albeit slowly for now. As July begins, we have lost four minutes from the ...

A planet that is snuggled up closely with its host star may be igniting colossal flares that strip it of its own mass.

There’s a magical place along Lake Michigan’s western shore where the horizon stretches endlessly blue and time seems to slow to the gentle rhythm of lapping waves—Harrington Beach State Park in ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small ...

National recognition for astronomers from Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth. Galactic winds stopped big galaxies from growing, Dr Rebecca Davies ...

Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the federal Department of Health and Human Services, charging that recent decisions ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

July’s rare meteor shower combo of Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids lights the sky with Milky Way ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky ...